A key member of the new mayor and council’s administrative staff announced his resignation Thursday. In a written letter addressed to his “friends and colleagues”, 11-year city hall veteran Donald Sammet announced his last day on the job will be April 2. Sammet [shown right] served as the city’s director of planning and redevelopment. “I […]

The special meeting the Asbury Park City Council scheduled for Sept. 25 with representatives of the New Jersey Department of Transportation [NJDOT] to discuss the state’s proposed redesign of Main Street with members of the public has been postponed. “The [NJ]DOT is not prepared to make a public presentation,” said Donald Sammet, city planning and […]

The Asbury Park City Council will hold a special meeting in September with representatives of the New Jersey Department of Transportation [NJDOT] to discuss the state’s proposed redesign of Main Street, and local business owners and residents are invited to weigh in. Commonly referred to as the “road diet,” the plan would reconfigure Rt. 71, […]

The city council is scheduled to meet tonight in council chambers at City Hall. A closed executive session will start at 5 p.m., followed by a workshop session at 6 p.m. and a regular council meeting at 7 p.m. Several special applications for liquor licenses are on the agenda. They include an application to extend […]

Waterfront redeveloper iStar Financial plans to build 225 new residential units on the block just west of the unfinished Esperanza high rise site, city attorney Frederick Raffeto told the city council at its Wednesday night meeting. The subject block is bound by Kingsley and Bergh streets between 3rd and 4th avenues. The site was suggested […]

The issue of first floor business uses along Cookman Avenue — in particular the ban on office space — was brought up at last week’s council meeting. Councilman John Moor requested Donald Sammet, the city’s redevelopment and planning director, make a presentation at a later date on what types of businesses can operate on Cookman […]

An amendment to city ordinances to allow eating and drinking on the second story of a building on Lake Avenue was introduced by the city council at last Wednesday’s meeting. Restaurateur Andy Ivanov, owner of Pilsener Haus in Hoboken [pictured above], plans to build a restaurant at 527 Lake Ave., on the corner of Lake […]

The last empty building on the boardwalk will soon be back in business. Boadwalk redeveloper Madison Marquette is renovating the shuttered Sunset Avenue Pavilion to reopen it for May’s Bamboozle festival. The boardwalk redeveloper seeks to “make the building active again instead of it laying there boarded up,” city redevelopment and planning director Donald Sammet said at Wednesday’s […]